Woo! I made it to Chapter 4 I'm marking this as an accomplishment. This will be the first Chapter will some fighting so I hope it came out well. Please enjoy :).

"Speaking"

"Thoughts"

"Jutsu"

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"Very well then… Begin!"

Three of the four Genin imminently jumped into the trees, Naruto stayed behind glaring daggers into Kakashi before point a finger to him, "Alright then, lets go Kakashi Sensei. You and me right now!" he exclaimed.

Kakashi continued to gaze lazily at his book not paying any particular attention to the blonde who was becoming slightly infuriated at being ignored, "Hey, acknowledge me!" he snapped making Kakashi sigh in almost disappointment as his actions.

"This can't really be Sensei's son can it, they're so different to each other" he mused inside his own head glancing up to the short boy studying him and comparing his to his own Sensei, he jumped to avoid Naruto who dived underneath him and again getting a mouthful of grass and dirt, "I wonder, if you were still alive Minato Sensei… would he be any different" he continued to wonder.

Naruto stood glaring at him again making Kakashi put his book down briefly to look at him, "Y'know, just trying to simply grab me will never work…" he started raising his voice slightly so the other three would also hear him, "…You have to aim to kill me, anything less and you've already failed" he revealed making the blonde's eyes slightly widen but a small smirk appeared on his lips.

"Okay then" he said crossing his fingers, "I guess I'll have to try that approach… Shadow C…"

Naruto was cut of by Kalis suddenly jumping down and grabbing him, "No you don't" he stated before jumping with Naruto into the trees again hiding them from Kakashi who shrugged returning to his book.

"Just as I though" he muttered to himself turning a page as he tried to guess who would attempt to take the bells next.

In the trees Kalis and Naruto had set down on a branch and were peaking out at Kakashi who was seemingly paying no attention, "What was that for, I could've taken him!" Naruto exclaimed in a hushed by spiteful tone.

Kalis turned to him, "Come on Naruto, he's a Jonin level Shinobi; he doubt he would be so easily taken out by Shadow Clones… plus I think there is more to this exam than it seems" he answered slightly look back to their Sensei with Soruki's question bouncing round in his head non stop.

"What else is there to think about, we've just got to take one of those bells, if we do that we pass… our Sensei's orders remember" he said trying to appeal to Kalis sense of following the rules and orders, "I'm going to go beat him and take a bell already, you better hurry up and do the same, I don't wanna be stuck on a team with Sasuke alone" he added before taking off in to the trees.

Kalis reached out to stop him but figured it would be pointless, once Naruto had made up his mind there was nothing anyone could do to change it, "Damn it" he muttered in a hushed tone as to not draw any attention; he decided to sense around to find the other members of their team.

He sensed Naruto darting through the trees likely looking for a good angle to sneak attack Kakashi though there was unlikely to be one, Sasuke was in a rather high tree watching the field below likely planning out his attack strategy and Sakura was hidden in a bush also watching the field but likely not planning any attacks as she wasn't the strongest of fighters but was possibly thinking of where she could place traps instead.

Kalis jumped higher into the tree his was in so he had a much better ground clearance and better time to react should an attack come though unlikely; his Sensei did seem to be on the unpredictable side. He crossed his legs as he sat down on the branch and placed his fingers together in the fashion the Shikamaru preferred to use then tilted his head down in thought.

"AH! How does this help Shikamaru think!" he silently exclaimed throwing his hands up not getting anywhere with his thoughts on Soruki's question from the previous day, "Sure, the most important part of the team is teamwork right but that's no use here it's a solo exercise to test individual abilities so why did she say that was a hint" he hissed quietly smacking his hands to his half covered face in frustration being very bothered by her attempts at helping.

"Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto exclaimed getting everyone's attention, the Jonin turned to him but didn't look up from his book, "I'm taking that bell!" he continued to exclaim.

"What is that idiot doing, there is no way he can take on a Jonin head on like that… but maybe I can use this" Sasuke thought with his teeth gritted at Naruto being so incompetent but still adjusting his carefully laid plan to ambush Kakashi with Naruto now in the mix as he reached for his Kunai/Shuriken pouch.

Sakura had looked up from her crudely drawn map of the area in the dirt and glared at the blonde, "How can he be so stupid, he is definitely someone who cannot take on a Jonin at his level, even if they are going easy on us… Sasuke would be able to take him on easily though I reckon" she mused in her mind with a small pink tinge on her cheeks as she turned back to using her Kunai on the dirt to plan out her traps.

Naruto placed his fingers crossed again "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he exclaimed making 10 extra identical Naruto's appear around him making 11, slightly surprising the others who didn't know he had this Jutsu and even Kakashi seemed impressed but that was immediately gone as Naruto simply charged at him.

Looking back to his book and turning the page he skilfully dodged one clone who smashed into a rock and puffed into smoke, he jumped so two more crashed into each other who stabbed each other with drawn Kunai and disappeared in smoke. He ducked the next one who went for a high kick that instead caught another clone in the face who had been throwing an awfully close range Kunai that instead hit the high kicking clone making them both disappear.

Kakashi while not looking away from his book used his free hand to catch another clone who he lifted then kicked him sending him flying in to the other clones who fell over, they all stood rubbing their heads, "Hey, watch where your flying" one snapped, "Hey it wasn't my choice" another responded a tic mark appearing, "Hey what's on your back?" another asked, on the thrown clones back was a bit of paper with some fire lit to it, "Isn't that a…" an explosion went off destroying the last few clones.

Kakashi sighed turning another page, "Just because you have more numbers, doesn't mean it'll be easier" he remarked "Now where is the real one?".

The real Naruto was above him falling down in an attempt the catch him off guard "The bell is mine!" he exclaimed when he thought there was no way Kakashi could dodge but before he knew it he landed on the dirt again and looking around frantically in an attempt to find the Jonin, "W-Where did he-"

Behind him, Kakashi was crouched down with his fingers in the Tiger hand sign "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu..." he began getting Naruto's attention who turned to late "One Thousand Years of Death!" he finished jamming his fingers forward into Naruto's behind.

The blonde gained a pained expression before being launched off in the air straight into a tree smacking his face into it before falling down, he slowly stood clutching his butt before stepping forward slightly, "Naruto! Watch-" but a blushing Sakura couldn't warn him in time from behind the tree she was hiding as Naruto was hoisted into the air by his feet from a trap Sakura had already set up while he fought Kakashi and making all his weapons spill from his pouches onto the floor out of his reach.

Sakura quickly hid again as Kakashi walked over his book still open but looking up at the boy, "Well this is quite the situation you've gotten in" he mused looking up at down the upside down boy who was struggling to free himself.

"Just you wait till I- "

"Try and charge me again?" the Jonin answered with his bored tone, "If you continue to follow the same tactic it'll never work; especially if your only tactic is the most obvious and un-thought out one" he instructed with slight disappointment in his tone, "If you want to get anywhere, you need to be smarter and try attacking with…".

He was cut off by several Shuriken being launched at him from the trees which all impacted the Jonin sending him stumbling but in a poof of smoke was replace with a log.

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Team 8 were panting hard as they were surrounding Kurenai who looked at them all with a smile on her face, "Well done, I'm happy to say you've all passed Team 8" she said looking to them all, "You were able to work as a team, utilising each of your individual skills team break the Genjutsu and track me down; well down".

Kiba fell on to his back with Akamaru landing on his stomach both trying to desperately catch their breath, "Man, is this gonna be an every day thing cause it's really damn tyring" he panted and getting an agreeing bark from Akamaru.

Hinata seemingly agreed also falling down trying to catch her own breath unable to form any words while Shino remained standing tucking his hands into his pockets using his usual flawless ability to hide his emotions.

Kurenai kept smiling at the groups before looking off into the distance, specifically towards the location of training ground three before letting out a sigh, "If you think this is tough, just be happy you didn't get Kakashi, I hope he's going easy on Team 7" she thought to herself knowing her fellow Jonin all to well.

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Kalis was now sitting up with his arms crossed still trying to get his thoughts together, "So Teamwork is important but we're not allowed to work in a team and we can't disobey our Sensei's orders, we're not allowed to" he muttered to himself and the figure behind him.

"You know, sitting around debating to yourself isn't helping you get any bells"

Kalis clenched his jaw upon sensing Kakashi crouched behind him, "H-how did I not sense him…" he thought before hastily leaping out of the tree towards the river.

Kakashi looked after him bored when he noticed the sizzling sound from the position Kalis just was; looking down he saw the paper bomb about to explode, "Hmm, very good" he mused as the explosive went off.

Kalis smiled to himself happy that he seemingly got Kakashi with the paper bomb, he landed on the water at looked at the tree with smoke coming out of it, "Very impressive being able to place a bomb without your opponent noticing till the last moment…" an all to familiar voice said behind him. Kalis leapt away a bit, looking back to see Kakashi standing there perfectly fine gazing up from him from his book, "…and being able to walk on water at your level confirms you're a Kochi" he remarked noticing his ability to water walk.

"Just how do you keep sneaking up on me!" The boy exclaimed with a tic mark appearing but only earned a shrug from Kakashi making him grumble "Well if you knew how Kochi are trained you wouldn't be surprised" he remarked getting into a fighting stance.

Kakashi snapped his book shut and placed it into his back pouch not looking away from Kalis, "Unfortunately, I do actually know how Kochi's are trained…" he started a very tiny look of sadness present in his one visible eye, "…which is also the reason I feel I should pay a bit more attention when I'm fighting you" he added tucking his hands into his pockets his eye returning to it's usual lazy stare.

Kalis grimaced slightly not liking this before putting his hands into the Tiger sign, "Water Clone Jutsu!" he exclaimed as four extra versions of himself formed out of the surrounding water, one jumped back away and began forming hand signs "I'll only have one shot…" he thought to himself slowly making his way through the signs.

The three other clones charged straight at Kakashi who jumped the first one and skilfully dodged around the other two, he took his hands out of his pockets to catch two more shuriken launched at him from the trees with out even looking, "So it seems Sasuke is sticking with the hidden attacks approach while the rest of him team attack… almost teamwork though using your teammates as bait without telling them takes that all away" he mused in his mind briefly scanning for and sign of the Uchiha.

He ducked under a water clone who swung past him, "Now where is the original?" he thought glancing to where the other clone was muttering under his breath and still weaving signs then seeing the original was gone, that was when he noticed the water rippling slightly below how making his eyes widen.

Kalis launched out of the water his hand extended for the bells making Kakashi leap back slightly in surprise and dart a hand out to grab his wrist but as he did another clone flew towards him with a spinning kick making his grab his foot with his other hand to prevent the impact to his head but the clone used the new stability to kick his other leg out to Kakashi's head which he barley ducked feeling the foot skim his hair; as it went past he let go of the leg as the momentum of the other foot would carry the clone off into a slight spin.

The original he had a tight grip on his wrist brought a leg up to impact Kakashi using the Jonin's grip as an anchor which he caught by the ankle binding his hands; then he heard a clap behind him, "Water Style: Water Prison Jutsu!" the person he held lost form into water which quickly formed around him trapping him inside a big bubble to water, looking around he saw the clone that jumped over him earlier hand his hands pressed into the water bubble smiling at him, "Sorry about this Kakashi Sensei".

Looking around he saw only two other Kalis's, the one forming hand signs and one more standing off to the side panting hard and guessed he dismissed the other clone, "So you must be the real one, you switched in with one of the clones when I was looking for Sasuke then had that clone attack me making me think that was the real one" he remarked a small smile present under his mask, "But, you can't get my bells if I'm in here I'm only trapped, so what's the plan now?" he asked slightly impressed.

Kalis simply indicated to his clone who'd finished weaving signs as realization struck Kakashi like a train as he saw the final hand sign as bird then realised he had gone though about 44 hand signs, "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" the clone exclaimed as a massive dragon made of water attempted to form behind him.

"So that is his plan, I did say they had to be aiming to kill me…" he muttered, "…I can't be hurt in this prison but I'm guessing that's why he used a clone to cast it, he'll release it last second so I'll be hit, very impressive and would definitely work on a lower level Ninja" he thought as the dragon looked to completely form but bizarrely it began to almost shake confusing Kakashi.

In a sudden moment the attempt at the water dragon exploded rippling the water and destroying the clone caster in the process, Kakashi cast a slightly amused eye over to the real Kalis who stood looking deadpanned at where the Jutsu was being attempted and where is subsequently blew up.

"So, not got that Jutsu down yet have you?" Kakashi remarked as Kalis turned back round to him with a sweatdrop and a shrug.

"Well I still have you trapped Kakashi Sensei" he remarked with a smile as he placed his hands to his hips looking quite triumphant but that changed when Kakashi simply extended a finger and popped the bubble and delivered a kick to the clone caster making Kalis go pale in shock.

"Not got that one either right?" a voice said behind, Kalis felt something get placed on his back with a sizzling sound but before he could do anything he was blown away quite a distance.

The boy smashed into a tree grunting in pain from both the impact and the pain from the explosion, he stood clutching his back where his jacket was burned slightly while walking forward slightly when he heard a ping as a string snapped below him and before he knew it multiple ninja wires hidden around flew towards him tying him up as the wrapped tightly around him with his arms pinned to his sides and legs tightly bound together.

"Oh, this is just great!" he exclaimed struggling the little he could to break the extremely tight bonds but knew the attempt was futile.

Meanwhile Sakura was watching from a distance with her face flushed red with embarrassment, she hastily hid behind a tree in a vain attempt to hide from her own screw up as what Kalis was currently tied up in was one of her traps much like how Naruto currently was.

Rather hastily she bolted off to where Sasuke and Kakashi were standing a ways off from each other, she quickly hid in a bush to watch their fight unfold.

Kakashi walked over to Sasuke who'd been glaring daggers at him, he'd jumped out of the trees to face Kakashi directly after he'd blown Kalis away, "Well then, I suppose it's you and me now" the Jonin commented while mentally checking then he'd used a more lighter explosive tag as to not kill or seriously injure one of the last Kochi clan members.

"I won't be that easy to take down; I'm an Uchiha not some second-hand Kochi" Sasuke remarked getting into his own fighting stance to glare harder at Kakashi who'd returned to his bored single eye expression.

"Oh really?" he mused looking to boy up and down, "Uchiha pride… it never ceases to amaze me" he commented in his head while placing his hands back to his pockets knowing he likely wont need to use them.

Sasuke wasted no time, he threw several Shuriken's at Kakashi who skilfully dodged around them but when he didn't realise was the string attached to each Shuriken which Sasuke pulled back on turning the flying weapons back on them selves shocking the Jonin who leapt to the side taking a hand out of a pocket to steady himself as he landed.

Sasuke charged up to him taking a swing which Kakashi caught, but using him as an anchor Sasuke brought his foot around for a kick which Kakashi countered by raising an arm which he impacted hard, but not giving up Sasuke swung up with his other foot swinging it down to Kakashi's head.

The Jonin noticed this and brought up his arm that had blocked Sasuke's other leg to catch it then twisted his arms to throw the boy out in a spin making him go back a bit but landing on his feet pulling out a Kunai and charging back for Kakashi, but something was now different about the boy, "His eyes…" Kakashi remarked in his mind noticing the red colour they had changed to, with a pupil still in the centre but a ring was around it with a single tomoe on the ring.

"Sharingan!" Sasuke exclaimed confirming Kakashi's thoughts as they clanged their Kunai's together.

Kakashi shook of the moment of surprise to catch Sasuke's other hand which was lunging for the bells then he stepped over the boys leg that swung for his own legs. He used the Genin's momentum to spin him around with his arms pinned behind his back stopping any movement, "Possessing your Sharingan at your age is impressive but you clearly don't know how to use it yet" Kakashi remarked before kicking Sasuke in the back sending him off stumbling.

Sasuke quickly recovered weaving his hands together, Snake-Ram-Monkey-Boar-Horse-Tiger, "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu" a stream of fire spewed from Sasuke's mouth forming into a massive ball which formed directly onto when Kakashi had been standing; he maintained it for a while before it eventually dissipated leaving a scotched ground in front of him and no signs of Kakashi.

Sasuke let a smug smile appear on his lips but that quickly faded as he felt his legs get taken out form under him then a swift kick to him abdomen sent him flying towards a slightly rocky area, he slowly got to a knee clutching his stomach glaring to Kakashi tyring to figure how the man got the jump on him.

These thoughts were quickly abolished however by the ground giving way below him sending him into the ground as dust erupted around him then before he knew it he was buried neck deep into the ground inside ditch and was entirely immobilized from any sort of movement aside from moving his head although that was only a small amount of movement granted to him.

Kakashi walked over tutting as he looked down at the very trapped boy with his hands back in his pockets, "You know, just because you've unlocked your eyes power doesn't mean you understand it you know" he remarked as Sasuke's eyes returned back to normal, "You weren't using it to counter my moves at all, it look more as if you were simply showing off or as some kind of intimidation tactic" he added turning away.

"I think I'll leave you here to let you think on it a bit" Kakashi finished with a wave over his shoulder.

Sakura covered her mouth in shock and a few tears creeped out of her eyes as she realised that now she'd trapped every other member of her team inside her traps. Naruto was caught in her hanging trap, Kalis tied up in her wire trap and now Sasuke was in her pitfall trap making her feel awful, more for Sasuke than any of the others.

She slowly crawled back on her hands a knees actively praying that the whited haired Jonin would never find her, after watching each of the fights she knew that she'd stand no chance against the man if none of her teammates could. She was not a straight up fighter, even worse than Naruto all she had going for her was being very smart and great at traps but that was all.

Another thing she was very bad at was having that extra sense most ninja should have for feeling when someone was behind them, if she did she'd know that Kakashi was crouched behind his with his hands in the tiger seal debating in his mind, "Is this to cruel…" he thought looking at his fingers then Sakura "…yeah that'd be too far" he mused letting his hands go and rest casually on his knees.

"Psst, hey Sakura…" he whispered getting her attention, her eyes went wide as she slowly turned towards him with terror in her eyes as she stared into his eye, "Do you know what Genjutsu is…" he eye smiled using a one handed sign making her wobble slightly and shake her head side to side.

"Wha…" she whispered before falling over unconscious.

Meanwhile, Naruto had crossed him arms as he was spinning around after he had just been flailing around in an attempt to get free without any of his ninja tools which were now spewed across the ground after falling out of his pocket and out of his reach.

He was currently looking around his view as he slowly spun around having no idea what was happening with his other teammates but only knew that too much blood was going to his brain giving him a sickly headache; squinting slightly over to the kunai shaped stone where he saw some small boxes. Getting as good a look as he could he noticed that they looked an awful lot like the bento boxes Soruki would give him.

A massive smile spread across his face as he realized they must be the lunch that Kakashi had brought for those who passed, "Alright, if I can get free, I can finally get myself some food" he beamed but kept his voice quiet as so no one would hear him.

He began struggling a bit more to get free but knew it was futile, he tried stretching for one of his kunai on the floor but it was just barely out of his reach making him sign, "Damn I just need one extra person to help me out here… I wish I could pull someone out of mid-air…" he trailed off then slapped his forehead realising that he could do just that.

He crossed his fingers "Shadow Clone Jutsu" he said and in a poof of smoke a clone of Naruto appeared looking at the upside down original Naruto while rubbing his stomach in hunger, "Hey can you cut me down then we can get something to eat?" the original asked.

The clone nodded, "Sure if you're hungry we'll be hungry" he remarked grabbing a kunai then quickly cutting Naruto down then disappearing in a puff of smoke as the original crashed into the ground. He quickly scrambled to his feet leaving his equipment in the ground and making a run for the memorial stone where the bento boxes were.

He rubbed his hands together as he sat down looking at the boxes while licking his lips; he picked one up and just as he opened it he heard a feminine scream echo out from the forest, "Sakura!" the blonde exclaimed looking around frantically for any sign of his pink haired teammate/crush.

"I wouldn't be worried about her if I were you" a voice said above Naruto; he slowly looked up to see Kakashi crouched atop the stone looking down at the boy with his book folded slightly closed in his hands, "Cause you're about to be in far more trouble trying to steal the food and skip the test" he eye smiled as Naruto sweated profusely terrified of what was about to happen to him.

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"Shadow Possession Jutsu complete" Shikamaru said as his own shadow had stretched out and gone up a tree then merged with Asuma's who was standing on a branch of that tree freezing him still.

"Expansion Jutsu!" Choji exclaimed as his right arm grew to a massive size, he jumped off his branch and smashed his fist into the frozen Asuma who went flying off the branch falling to the ground but puffed into nothing, "A Clone!?" Choji exclaimed as he looked around frantically for signs of the man as did his other teammates.

"Over there!" Ino exclaimed indicting to a tree where Asuma was hiding behind; Shikamaru's shadow immediately shot for the tree making Asuma leap away to be just out the range of his Jutsu and as he landed a ringing went out from the time on the alarm finishing.

Asuma chuckled as he looked at the exhausted Genin below him who were all panting hard, "Well it looks as if your time is up, and I am still perfectly fine" he remarked letting a smirk stay on his lips.

"Can we just skip your amusement and give us a straight answer!" Shikamaru snapped falling against a tree and sitting down against it leaning his head up to clear his airway to get more into his lungs.

"Yeah, no disrespect Asuma Sensei but can you just tell us if we passed or not already, I don't have the patience for anymore today!" Ino snapped as well collapsing on her branch feeling dizzy from a lack of oxygen.

Asuma laughed again, "Okay, okay I get it. Well while you didn't land a proper hit on me you did perform pretty well as a team and I think with a little more training and refinement you'll be pretty good… so I'm happy to say that you pass Team 10" he smiled.

Choji fell backwards to be sprawled out on his back, "Oh thank lord, this was too exhausting to be worth nothing" he said between deep breaths having likely suffered the most from the 'hide and seek' exercise.

"Well I've gotta say, you all really impressed me" a feminine voice echoes out; glancing up they saw Soruki on a branch above them with a smile on her face before jumping down next to Asuma, "But there is definitely room for improvement, which I'm sure Asuma here is more than willing to help with" she added bumping his shoulder with her own.

"Soruki? What are you doing here?" Ino questioned looking up to the woman she'd known for a good time of her life, mostly through Kalis.

"Oh, you don't know do you? I'm meant to assist with any of the teams where needed but I'm also here to deliver messages for each Jonin Sensei" she answered turning to Asuma, "If you're done here Asuma the Hokage has asked you to report to him to collect your first team mission for tomorrow" she revealed making him nod.

"Alright, Team 10 you're dismissed for now, go have a bite to eat then some rest you earned it today" he smirked down to his students of which only two slowly stood to their feet though remaining to take deep breaths while Choji remained laying down, "Meet me outside the Hokage's office tomorrow morning" he finished before turning to take off.

"Wait!" Ino said making her Sensei turn back to her as did Soruki, "Soruki, you said you're delivering messaged to each Sensei, those are the ones from our year correct?" she enquires.

Soruki smiled already knowing where this was going, "Yes. You're the second to last team I've visited, you'll be happy to know Team 8 have passed after a pretty cruel Genjutsu test" she started sweat dropping slightly at the Kurenai's test which she herself has suggested, "But I've not visited Team 7 yet, they are next though" she finished with a smile.

Ino knew who belonged to each team as Naruto had told her yesterday when they were out together before she died of embarrassment, "Oh I see" she mumbled, in truth she was hoping to hear the Team 7 had already passed after all she was friends with half the members team though she hadn't spoken to Naruto since yesterday's events.

Soruki had cocked her head to the side in a slight confusion a to why Ino had been so curious about Team 7, she knew Kalis was in that team but Ino didn't know how bad Kakashi could be, luckily for her Shikamaru was on hand to help, "You see Ino went on a date with Naruto yesterday so she…" he was cut of by Ino covering his mouth with her hand making his eyes go wide as she glared murder into his eyes though her face was tinged with a blush.

Soruki started laughing and Asuma chuckled slightly as well, "Aww, that's cute Ino" she teased as Ino's face turned even redder in embarrassment.

"IT WASN'T A DATE!" Ino exclaimed in embarrassment while glaring at the older Kochi thought is wasn't like she'd know she was glaring.

Soruki continued though it was reduced to a light chuckle at this point while Asuma was looking of in the direction of the Third training ground, "…You do have a reason to worry though Ino…" he muttered though they all heard him pretty well aside from Choji who'd fallen asleep in exhaustion.

Soruki nodded placing her hands into her pockets as Ino looked confused as did Shikamaru as his teammate removed her hand from covering his mouth, "What do you mean exactly" the Nara questioned not liking their tone.

Asuma sighed, "You see, their Sensei is Kakashi… he's one of the best Shinobi the leaf has ever produced but he's never passed a team" he answered with a sigh pulling out his cigarette packet to take out one.

"How has no one passed him before?" Ino asked.

It was Soruki's turn to answer now, "You see Kakashi believes in teamwork above all, and if he has a team that cannot work together he will fail them and send them back to the academy to learn their lesson" she said adding a sigh on the end after all her own younger brother was on the team and she wanted him to pass, "All they need to do is try an take some bells from him while working together, but if they don't he'll give them one more chance…" she added trailing off.

Both Ino and Shikamaru gasped upon hearing this as they knew the make up of Team 7, each member was a pretty independent person and all were incredibly unlikely to work together, even Kalis and Naruto as the blonde would definitely want to do the task himself to prove himself.

They both had their own thoughts going through their minds mostly just wondering if there would be a team in their year that would fail, especially a team with the two highest ranked of their year. But all Ino could think about was the blonde of that team, she knew she'd likely hurt his feelings yesterday and truly hoped that he would pass this Kakashi's test as the boy really needed a break.

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As a ringing echoed out above his head Naruto was embarrassed to say the least, for one reason he was tied to a stump but unlike Sasuke who was still dusting himself off and finding small pebbles in his hair or Kalis who was shaking his arms in an attempt to get the some feeling back in his limps after being tightly restricted by the wires or even Sakura who was bright red in a blush, they were still wearing all their clothes.

Naruto was right now in his underwear while tied to a stump, his punishment for trying to avoid the test and eat early. He looked up to where Kakashi was standing with his arms crossed looking at them all individually, "Well that's time and as you can see and hear…" he began tapping his side making the two bells ring out "…the bells are still safely by my side" he finished his tone unreadable.

"Oh, come on what can you expect!" the blonde exclaimed wrestling against his bindings, "You're a damn Jonin how could any of us come close to beating you!" he snapped glaring at the white haired man.

"Well if none of you got in the way, I could've taken my bell with ease" Sasuke remarked.

"Well surprise Sasuke you got to fight Kakashi one on one and none of us interfered and you still lost!" Kalis snapped at him clenching his teeth.

"Yeah that's right, you blame us for your mistakes Sasuke!" Naruto added clenching his own restrained fists.

"Shut up Naruto! My Sasuke could've definitely done it on his own but you two probably did something to distract him!" Sakura screamed glaring at the one blind and one bounded boys who turned their attention to her.

"WHAT?!" They both exclaimed together.

"WILL YOU ALL STOP ARGUING FOR FIVE MINUTES!" Kakashi shouted getting all their attentions clearly being annoyed with their constant arguing antics; he took a breath to calm down before continuing, "This is the exact reason why you all failed… Naruto you said that since I'm a Jonin you'd all have no chance to beat me but that wasn't the point of the test; it was about teamwork, on your own none of you could beat me but if you had just worked as a team then you'd actually have a chance and I'd of passed you" he revealed shocking them all.

Sasuke hissed before charging straight at Kakashi with a Kunai drawn but before he knew it, he was on the ground with his right arm pinned behind his back and the cold steel of his Kunai pressed to his neck as Kakashi sat casually on his back. "This is another point, you're all far to independent; You Sasuke believe you have to do everything on your own" he started.

He then pointed the Kunai up to Kalis, "You play with too recklessly with attacks you haven't perfected yet risking yourself and others around you!"

Then to Naruto, "You become far to headstrong and refuse to adjust your plans and overly rely on the exact same strategy!".

Then finally to Sakura, "And you jeopardised your entire team, not only did you leave the planned locations of your traps in the open for me to see then didn't even tell you teammates about them and once they were caught in them you did nothing to help fix your mistake!" he snapped remembering finding her crudely drawn map in the dirt.

Kakashi sighed as they all looked downcast, "You are definitely by far the worst team I've ever had to teach, granted two of you made me have to pay some level of attention in fighting but you were both extremely flawed, Sasuke you have no idea how to use your Sharingan and you Kalis knew you hadn't perfected either the Water Prison Jutsu or the Water Dragon Jutsu but risked them anyway, you've lucky that only one backfired at that was on a clone!" he added next looking between the two.

He slowly brough the Kunai back down to Sasuke's throat, "And look what's happening right now, I could be an enemy who currently has Sasuke here at his mercy what would any of you do about it; what are you doing now, nothing!" he snapped glaring at them all, "What if they make demands, Sakura take a Kunai and kill Kalis right now or I'll kill Sasuke, what would you do, exactly still nothing none of you have truly understood what a shinobi's life is, have you?!" he added.

He got no answer, maybe he had gone a bit over board but he needed to get this point across; sighing Kakashi put the Kunai away before standing up letting Sasuke move then grabbing three bento boxes leaving them at the feet of his sitting students, "I'm going to give you one more chance but I'm going to be harder on you and you'll have even less time, so eat up now but… Naruto gets nothing!" he finished before disappearing in smoke.

Kalis, Sakura and Sasuke took the bento boxes without a word Sakura and Sasuke ate it slowly but Kalis simply held his box while being deep in thought, "It was about looking past the obvious, we were meant to work as a team in a situation where if we did half of us would fail" he thought hating that he knew the answer but didn't believe it to be true.

He was awoken from his thoughts by the sounds of Naruto's stomach rumbling as he groaned, Kalis sighed as he stirred the rice in his box with his chop sticks "And now we have a second chance where we'll have to work as a team or we'll definitely fail but how can we all work together… Damnit I'm sorry I've let you down father" he continued in his mind tapping the side of his box.

Kakashi meanwhile was leaning against a tree a way off to be just outside Kalis's sensory range, he glanced up to a small mirror he'd placed to keep an eye on the students to see if they passed his second test, "Y'know you didn't need to be that harsh with them" Soruki said standing on the branch above him.

"Was I easy on you?" he simply remarked.

"No, I suppose not" she answered in a slightly quieter tone of voice, "But it was different back then" she added turning her head down to the white haired Jonin who didn't give her any indication of hearing her.

"When it was your turn, your clans loss was still relativly fresh and 'he' betrayed us all not long after" he answered uncrossing his arms and placing his hands into his pockets while shutting his eye, "But these lot are the next generation and they need to be able to work together, even if the stakes may be a little lower, we cannot go easy on them regardless of who they are" he added.

Soruki sighed leaning against the tree knowing that in reality Kakashi was right, she loved her little brother but if he and his team couldn't work together and all put their differences aside then she knew there would be little hope for them but she still smiled as she knew the test wasn't over, "Let's see what they do now then" she simply stated sensing out their positions still with hope.

Kalis was still idly tapping his box not feeling like eating before a thought dawned upon him, "Wait…" he turned to face Sasuke and Sakura, "There are three bento box's but at the start Kakashi tricked us to this only two would pass, so why does he have three meals… unless he was expecting this and the test…" this thought played over in his mind.

The more he thought about it the more it dawned on him that he knew the answer before, they needed teamwork but he didn't believe it to be true and now if the test continues Naruto would definitely be left behind as he was too exhausted to perform any more fighting as he hadn't eaten all day.

Kalis sighed, "Oh what the hell…" he stood up gaining the attention of the others as he walked straight up to Naruto picking up a bit of rice and presenting it to Naruto "Eat up, you'll need your strength as well" the boy beamed at him before gratefully taking a bit of the food.

"Kalis what are you doing?!" Sakura hissed, "Kakashi Sensei told us Naruto wasn't meant to eat…" she began.

"He's right…" Sasuke grumbled standing to his feet to help feed Naruto shocking Sakura, "Look at it this way our test earlier didn't go well and if we have to work together a starved Naruto will slow us down" he answered as he picked up some food from his box.

"Plus, I can't sense Kakashi Sensei anywhere nearby, so he wont know we've done this, Sakura" Kalis added surprised Sasuke had sided with him as he gave Naruto another bit of food.

Sakura shifted uncomfortably before getting to her feet and presented her own box for Naruto making him smile wider "Wow, thank you guys. You're really doing this for me?" he asked.

Kalis gave his signature kind smile, "Well you're our teammate and you're my best friend so we wouldn't leave you to starve" he answered while Sasuke just grumbled and Sakura blushed a bit harder averting her gaze.

Kakashi watched this from the mirror with his eye slightly widened, "Well, I didn't expect this" he commented as he watched the three Genin stand around the fourth feeding him.

Soruki jumped down with a grin on her face, "Well it looks as if they're breaking your rules Kakashi" she teased letting out a small giggle which was rare for her, "As I told you, don't give up on those lot just yet" she smirked.

Kakashi let a small smile cross his own hidden lips, "Okay, maybe you were right about this one" he said taking his hands from his pockets then pulling out a smoke bomb from his back pouch.

She laughed a little, "Well looks like I finally got one up on you right Kakashi" she commented with a shrug, "You now owe me some lunch of my choice… I'll see you around as you know where you need to bring you team tomorrow" she said before walking off.

Kakashi turned around to prepare his surprise for his student, "Oh and Kakashi…" he turned back round to see Soruki herself turned back to him, "That's my little brother in your squad, if anything happens to him you know what I'll do" her tone changing darker as a warning.

The Jonin let a smile return to his lips while he sweat dropped slightly, "I'll do my best to keep him alive, Soruki" he chuckled.

Soruki walked off again to go tell the Hokage that all the messages had been delivered for all passed teams but letting a smile go across her lips that she knew she'd keep for a while, "Good luck with those four… Captain" she muttered to only herself before continuing off.

The Genin were continuing to share their meals completely oblivious to the conversation between Kakashi and Soruki until a smoke bomb went off knocking them to the ground in shock "HOW DARE YOU!" a voice exclaimed, from the smoke appeared Kakashi with his hands on his hips glaring at them as a storm rolled in.

"I told you that Naruto was not to get any food, care to explain yourselves!" he ordered sounding extremely mad at the Genin who were all at least slightly shook and worried about their Sensei's next few words, "Nothing to say?!" he exclaimed "Well then, there is only one thing for me to say…" he said leaning down to them.

"For breaking the rules…" Naruto gulped unable to look away as he was frozen all over.

"You…" he began as Sasuke gritted his teeth and clenched his fists together.

"Have…" he continued as Sakura closed her eyes to scared to look at him in the eye.

"All…" Kalis clenched his jaw and tried to brace for the worse and to face his father.

"Passed" Kakashi eye smiled at them his tone changing to a friendly one.

"WHAT!" They all exclaimed, those with visible eyes staring at the white haired Jonin who kept his signature smile on his eye.

"You have all passed" he repeated pulling himself up to a standing height towering over them all a smug smile present under his mask as his students continued to look dumbfounded at him.

"B-but I don't understand… you said we weren't allowed to give Naruto any food, and this wasn't the test?" Sakura managed to get out completely at a loss as they had broken the rules and hadn't completed any sort of second test.

"Let me explain, you see this was your second test to see if you'd followed your superiors orders at the detriment to your comrades well being; had you followed my orders I would have failed you but since you disobeyed to help Naruto I'm happy to pass you all" he eye smiled again.

"But wait, how does Naruto pass if we're the ones who fed him" Sasuke questioned next.

"A good question with a simple answer, Naruto accepted your offers to feed him. Many students before you had offered their tied up teammate their food but they were too prideful to accept the offer thus they all failed" he answered again keeping the strange smile as they all looked to each other understanding that if one failed they all did.

"So, I guess I was the deciding factor in it all huh?" Naruto chuckled before getting a swift poke in the head by Sakura.

Kalis shook his head "Okay, I think we understand all that, but we broke the rules, we've always been taught that a Shinobi should never break the rules regardless of the reasons behind it".

Kakashi walked over to them all, "That is the main purpose of this exercise" he answered confusing them all again, "You see this entire time all my instructions were a ruse, with the bells I expected you to work as a team even though two of you would fail, even if you didn't get any bells you still would've showed the capability to work together and I'd of passed you all but after failing that I gave you this test to see if you'd abandon your teammate when he needed help and if he would be willing to let others help him" he added slightly making more sense to them.

"But why?" Naruto asked only kinda getting his head around it all but was still very confused as were the others though they wouldn't admit it.

Kakashi took a moment before answering, "You see a Ninja must see through deception, in the Ninja world those who break the rules are scum that's true, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum" he answered before turning away giving them their first lesson "Now I'd say you've earned a break today, meet me outside the Hokage's office first thing in the morning for our first mission as Team 7" he said with a thumbs up.

"When you say first thing in the morning…" Sakura began deadpanning.

"Should we turn up a few hours later?" Naruto finished as Kalis untied him from the post then the blonde hastily grabbed his clothes to quickly put on.

"Now if you turned up later, you'd only be late" Kakashi simply answered before walking away leaving that question in the air.

"Wait that's not an answer Kakashi Sensei… KAKASHI SENSEI!" the now fully clothed Naruto exclaimed after their new Sensei who simply continued to walk off into the distance, "Man he really is rude".

Kalis chuckled, "Well sometimes you are to Naruto" he commented making the boy laugh awkwardly rubbing the back of is head as all their stomachs growled as they hadn't eaten much out of their shared boxes which were now spilled over the floor when they were startled earlier, "But I'm to hungry to care, so who wants to get a bite" the blind boy said with a smile to Naruto and Sakura.

"I'm in!" the blonde obviously exclaimed.

Sakura blushed a little clearly still embarrassed, "I'll go to and if it's alright I'll pay" she murmured.

"Alright a date with Sakura!" Naruto said excitedly before receiving a smack from the pinkette.

"It's not a date idiot it's just…" she stopped herself as the blush returned, "…I just feel bad for all of you getting stuck in my traps so I wanted to make up for it a little" she said almost whispering the last part so they barely heard.

They all turned to Sasuke who was performing his usual broody routine but it was broken by his own stomach rumbling, he grimaced before walking off then turning back to them all, "Are we getting food or what, I'm starved so I don't care who comes along even if it's you two losers" he snapped at the only other boys there making Naruto chuckle slightly before following on with Kalis behind, his arms crossed keeping his senses on the Uchiha just in case.

Sakura meanwhile was blushing furiously but her inside voice was full of joy, "YES I'VE BASICALLY JUST GOT A DATE WITH SASUKE!" it exclaimed before she ran to catch up with them all so she wouldn't be left behind.

Hidden in the trees, a lone female figure watched as Team 7 walked off to get some food, she studied each of them but paid the most attention to Kalis, watching him through the holes in her white hunter mask with a red wavy designs, "Soon Kochi, you and your clan will pay for everything you've done, and it will start with you" she hissed before darting off deep into the forest before she could be found.

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Thank you for reading this chapter, I'm not sure if I did well explaining or detailing the fights all to well but I'm hoping to improve that with more and more attempts.

Please feel free to a leave a review of what you thought.

I'll see you next time :).